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Hep-Th, or high-energy theoretical physics, explores the fundamental building blocks of our universe and the forces that govern them. Researchers in this field use complex mathematics to understand everything from subatomic particles to the behavior of black holes, often pushing the boundaries of what we know about space and time.
At Gist.Science, we monitor the arXiv repository to ensure you stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving discipline. For every new preprint uploaded to arXiv under this category, our team generates both accessible plain-language overviews and detailed technical summaries, making cutting-edge research understandable regardless of your background.
Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper reports the first experimental implementation of the HaPPY holographic code on a trapped-ion quantum computer, confirming the Faulkner-Lewkowycz-Maldacena formula and observing entropic signatures of emergent gravity and quantum wormholes.
This paper demonstrates that time-averaged entangling power serves as an effective operator-level diagnostic for distinguishing between manifest symmetry and parameter-dependent hidden symmetries in the Quantum Rabi model family, revealing distinct spectral responses such as peaks at integer-bias points for the asymmetric model and dips for the Jaynes-Cummings limit.
This paper demonstrates that strong quantum fluctuations in the near-extremal throat of an asymptotically AdS black brane induce a non-monotonic temperature dependence in holographic electrical conductivity, causing it to decrease at low temperatures before rising as , a behavior confirmed by both an effective two-dimensional Schwarzian action and a four-dimensional gravitational path integral.
This paper demonstrates that quantum fluctuations of the near-AdS throat in near-extremal black branes with momentum relaxation induce a universal low-temperature enhancement in holographic transport coefficients, producing non-monotonic temperature dependencies for operators with scaling dimension that closely resemble behaviors observed in correlated materials.
This paper validates the composite worldline instanton approach for calculating the nonperturbative decay of charged particles in constant electric and magnetic fields by demonstrating its agreement with self-energy and wave function overlap methods, while also exploring its potential application to proton decay and the effects of final-state entanglement.
This paper proposes and evaluates three complementary methods—ADAF-like flares from scalar clump encounters with Kuiper Belt Objects, atomic clock searches for oscillating fundamental constants, and astrometric microlensing—to constrain the properties of scalar field dark matter, demonstrating that Gaia-like astrometry can already probe compact clumps at the percent level for masses above .
This paper investigates holographic conformal line defects within SCFTs by constructing supersymmetric solutions in matter-coupled 5D gauged supergravity with various gauge groups, including their uplifts to eleven dimensions and connections to six-dimensional field theories.
This paper establishes an operational criterion for off-shell equivalence in quantum field theory and gravity using the Vilkovisky–DeWitt effective action and scalar observables, demonstrating that apparent quantum inequivalences in theories like metric gravity often stem from comparing distinct quantum objects rather than a failure of actual equivalence.
Using a variational linearized Boltzmann kinetic approach with the DDME2 equation of state, this study demonstrates that while neutrons dominate thermal transport in dense matter, the onset of hyperons causes only a negligible reduction in conductivity, leaving the core thermal relaxation timescale practically unaltered.
This paper investigates the gauge structure of interacting non-Abelian antisymmetric tensor field models derived from dimensional reduction on a group manifold, demonstrating that the stages of reducibility for their gauge transformations remain unchanged from those of the corresponding free theories.